tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183414352014-10-03T01:44:32.667-06:00The Occasional GinsbergSome Ginsberg, some of the time.Shaw Israel Iziksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01951885209818980856noreply@blogger.comBlogger139125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-87677247850170990072013-05-10T14:59:00.001-06:002013-05-10T14:59:51.048-06:00Worldwide Space Cowboys are DeadWorldwide Space Cowboys are Dead. Is the Occasional Ginsberg next?The_Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01042029949389704751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-25468555690323166682009-10-23T10:14:00.000-06:002009-10-23T10:14:10.782-06:00A Rant on Expectations of Health Insurance (Answer to Last Entries Comments)I'm just going to throw in something that will probably make people angry.<br /><br />Pure insurance, the most fundamental concept, doesn't generally include compassion and is not conceived to take on risks that have pre-existing conditions. Houses that have fucked up plumbing systems, bad fire hazards, etc. etc. will not be covered by a company. Business that run the risk of hurting tons of people will not be accepted by a company.<br /><br />The differences between a house and a person is that house isn't alive and the only real obstacle to getting it insurable is the cost to fix it up. A business can change its practices to become insurable.<br /><br />A person, on the other hand, when they get injured or many diseases, it's stuff that doesn't go away. A body can't get fixed up or necessarily change how it functions to make it insurable. Then there's genetic cases, etc. etc.<br /><br />As my dad says: "Insurance is not a charity. These companies are in it to make money." These companies are for-profit companies, they're not non-profits or charitable organizations. They are beholden to their stockholders, their policyholders and the almighty dollar. And for the policyholders, they need to make sure they have money ready to pay eligible claims.<br /><br />Even if they weren't for-profit, the other issue with pre-existing conditions and such is that without underwriting, declining, exclusions, etc. etc., premiums go sky high!<br /><br />In the case of homeowners policies, they do not cover damages from floods. The government has to pick that up through the National Flood Insurance Program under the Department of Homeland Security (the NFIP was before Homeland, but that's just a part of history), and even NFIP policies have maximum limits of $250,000 on dwelling limits against floods.<br /><br />The reason why homeowners policies don't cover flood and NFIP policies put a maximum limit is that floods and water damage are huge losses. If homeowners policies covered floods, premiums on the policies would be almost as much as the cost of the home. There would be no point to getting the insurance if the cost of it is the cost of your home pretty much every year.<br /><br />If health insurance covered everything and accepted everyone, premiums would be sky high. It would essentially be a scheme of funneling healthy people's money to help sick people. That's not insurance. Insurance is essentially a gamble of a company accepting premiums from a lot of good risks & paying out when one of the good risks has a loss and hopefully a catastrophic loss, not a small loss. That's why there's deductibles, to discourage people making small claims & wallowing away the reserves of insurance companies or, in other words, money that other insureds paid to build up those reserves.<br /><br />I still think healthcare needs some major reform and that there needs to be some resort for majorly sick people, people who have been raped, etc. etc. Nonetheless, that would be charity or some kind of government program, not private for-profit insurance.<br /><br />Yeah, I think there have been some corrupt insurance companies and executives and other insurance companies have done some dumb shit (ahem, AIG). I think things get lost in the bureaucracy. I think there's a whole bunch of things that deviate away from the ideal that need to be corrected on the level of automation, processes, quality control, information management, decision making, etc. etc.<br /><br />Nonetheless, I don't believe for-profit insurance companies are the place to make things better. In many ways they have done much good for their insureds. Insurance companies act in some sort as a form of collective bargaining to bring the costs down on in-network providers, which is probably the major benefit they've provided for people. I think this automatic collective bargaining has actually contributed to making people a little lazy about not doing their own bargaining, and that's what the new HSA-compatible plans are supposed to address.<br /><br />As an attempt at controlling costs and trying to advance relationships between doctors and their patients, I actually think HMOs work as a good model. The consumer end user doesn't like the lack of choice, however. We also don't have enough doctors in the field to make HMOs work well.<br /><br />In all honesty, I've read in industry magazines that all the different programs in private health insurance are still being explored and in something of an embryonic stage. The people have a demand for it, so the companies and the think tanks have pretty much put stuff together as a patchwork to give them something. Of course it won't necessarily work right because they need time to work out the kinks and issues.<br /><br />Basically, in the long run, when the private insurance companies work right, I don't think they're meant to address the far out cases that generally get brought up in the news or the cases that stand out as the stories that seem typical. Yeah, some of the cases are dumb shit & the insurance companies do dumb shit because they're a bureaucracy.<br /><br />In the long run, though, unless my conditions do get met, I believe that helping people that can't get private insurance pay their health bills should be taken up by the government or by some sort of charitable organization. Health insurance is just not conceived originally to address those cases.<br /><br />And being in the insurance industry, I can also cite the case of Massachusetts as an attempt to both cut costs and to try cutting down on the cases of people trying to take advantage of the insurance industry by trying to get it when they need it to pay for something. That is not the intent of insurance. Intent of insurance is to have it before anything arises that needs to get paid.<br /><br />It's not a black & white issue. There's expectations on both sides and both sides have also abused their responsibilities in the matter.<br /><br />I really just had to get some of that out after having been exposed to people this morning having expectations for insurance higher than reality can meet.The_Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01042029949389704751noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-40119179558425093702009-10-19T19:29:00.003-06:002009-10-19T19:36:11.916-06:00New debate, old fucking news.I think it's time for some good old fashioned discussion, so this time we'll be chatting each other up about the healthcare debate. I'll begin by throwing this out there: it's pathetically stupid to even call it a debate. Cuba, poorer than dusty shite, can afford healthcare for all it's citizens but we're too strapped? How much did we give those bastard banks for their bailout again? And why can we still afford two wars and the damn Pentagon?<br /><br />Please remember, I've already made up my mind and I can give you the answers to all those rhetorical questions. I want to read what you think...helioshamashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977329185835135135noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-70689610872615122882008-11-04T09:30:00.003-07:002008-11-04T09:34:47.713-07:00just do it, do it justice<div style="border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; background-color: rgb(84, 106, 125); width: 550px; margin-left: 20px;"> <h2>Election 2008 Voting Information</h2> <p> Today, November 4th, is Election Day! Remember to vote--not just for Barack Obama, but for Congressional, state and local candidates as well. </p> <h3>Where and when do I vote?</h3> <p>Find your polling place, voting times, and other important information by checking out these sites and the hotline below. These resources are good, but not perfect. To be doubly sure, you can also contact <a href="https://vote411.overseasvotefoundation.org/overseas/eod.htm" target="_blank">your local elections office</a>. </p> <ul><li> Obama's VoteForChange site: <a href="http://www.voteforchange.com/" target="_blank">voteforchange.com</a> </li><li> League of Women Voters site: <a href="http://vote411.org/pollfinder.php" target="_blank">vote411.org/pollfinder.php</a> </li><li> Obama's voter hotline: (877) US4-OBAMA (or 877-874-6226) </li></ul> <h3>What should I do before I go?</h3> <ul><li> After you've entered your address on either <a href="http://www.voteforchange.com/" target="_blank">Vote For Change</a> or <a href="http://www.vote411.org/bystate.php" target="_blank">Vote411</a>, read the voting instructions and special rules for your state. </li><li> Voting ID laws vary from state to state, but if you have ID, bring it. </li><li> Check out all the voting myths and misinformation to look out for: <a href="http://truth.voteforchange.com/" target="_blank">http://truth.voteforchange.com/</a> </li></ul> <h3>What if something goes wrong?</h3> <ul><li> Not on the voter list? Make sure you're at the right polling place, then demand a provisional ballot. </li><li> If you're voting on an electronic machine with a paper record, verify that the record is accurate. </li><li> Need legal help? Call 1-866-OUR-VOTE </li><li> Try to get video of the problem and submit it to <a href="http://www.videothevote.org/" target="_blank">VideoTheVote.org</a> </li></ul> <h3>Want to do more?</h3> <ul><li> Text all of your friends: "Vote Obama today! Pass it on!" </li><li> Volunteer at your local Obama office. Find an office <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/splash/volunteer.html" target="_blank">here</a> or <a href="http://pol.moveon.org/obama/office.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </li><li><a href="http://my.barackobama.com/n2n" target="_blank">Make calls from home</a> for Obama.</li></ul> <h3>Now everybody go vote!!!</h3> </div>GreenSmilenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-74286132915860395772007-09-28T09:43:00.000-06:002007-09-28T10:02:11.355-06:00Are Our Lives Our CareersThe other night, I met a friend for a coffee. I'm a administrative/sales assistant and customer service rep at an insurance agency by day and writing is my main career. She's an event marketer with some ad design assignments by day and singer-songwriter is her main career. We met on the job as event marketers for this one company before we left it for various reasons.<br /><br />For a first half hour or so, we spent most of our time talking about our day jobs, what we do and some of our accomplishments. We moved onto talking about our old supervisor who we both worked under at the job where we met. Afterword, we discussed our main careers, which then diverged off into talking about our educations, financial issues and histories, a little bit about what happened after we got out of college (a lot about my history between school and start my day job in isnurance) and as the night wound down, we started talking about the industry trends an forecasts for our particular main careers along with an ending tangent on how we think educational systems in our society should work, how education shapes people and how the lack of interest in reading really works against my main career.<br /><br />All very interesting, but my main point of issue is how it took us something like half an hour to forty five minutes of talking about our day jobs and the awkwardness at times of try to connect again. Our jobs aren't don't really cross that much, industry-wise and there would really have to be a lot of educating each other about our respective jobs if we wanted to have extensive conversations about both our jobs. Possibly the most annoyingly tragic part, though, is that these day jobs consume so much of our time, attention and energy that we have to play catch up day job-wise before we can even broach the discussions that interest us, which includes our main careers.<br /><br />We would probably have a very different conversation if we saw each other on a more regular basis or e-mailed more often. Last time we met up was probably about a month ago, and we've been so busy with our day jobs and main careers that e-mailing and blogging has become more of a luxury than something that can become a daily routine. At least, that's how it is for me.<br /><br />Things have to be this way for the both of us since we haven't gotten unqualified success in our careers (at least she's gigging -- I haven't even presented a written article or story except to writing workshops). I just get so frustrated how much the day job can become a barrier from both career success and the ease of entering deeper and more interesting conversation with some element of comfortable grace.<br /><br />I can't wait for getting my career going. . ..The_Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01042029949389704751noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-53028901412636932792007-09-24T19:24:00.000-06:002007-09-24T19:27:30.767-06:00Shaw's Playing It Simple and One-on-OneSo. . .um. . .yeah. . .Shaw's put the smack down on being the center of the hub. He's his own man. Did everyone know Shaw's the Man?<br /><br />If you contradict me about Shaw, you'll have to go through me first.<br /><br />Shaw's the Man.The_Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01042029949389704751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-1171587381557174602007-02-15T17:55:00.000-07:002007-02-15T17:56:21.576-07:00Something About the World Doesn't Feel RightI'm disappointed in it.<br /><br />It doesn't rock enough.<br /><br />I think it needs more rock.<br /><br />Anyone else agree?The_Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01042029949389704751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-1169726371271997352007-01-25T04:51:00.000-07:002007-01-25T04:59:31.340-07:00To upgrade or not to upgradeYo! Team!<br />This blog is lagging in ways beside the regularity of posting: Its and "old blogger" blog in a world of declining support and increasing buggyness. I was loath to switch my blogs but it got so that the "publish" buttons were not doing anything. Not that new blogger is perfect, mind you. The conversion will mess with our settings, e.g. RSS feed will default to "FULL" even if we had set none or short. But sooner or later we gotta make the leap. A cursory check of ET showed me that newest posts, stuck in the server under old blogger did show up and oldest posts back to the dawn of blogging [my personal dawn that is] had all come over in tact.<br /><br />What say you?GreenSmilenoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-1168966283173497152007-01-16T09:27:00.000-07:002007-01-16T09:51:23.253-07:00Pawn Shop.<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">I think pawn shops show us what banks and credit card companies are really like.<br /><br /></span>helioshamashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977329185835135135noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-1167867987102850782007-01-03T16:45:00.000-07:002007-01-03T16:46:27.123-07:00Flotsamisms.<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Anyone been to a pawn shop lately?</span>helioshamashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977329185835135135noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-1162434855700261832006-11-01T19:33:00.000-07:002006-11-01T19:34:15.743-07:00Yo!What's up?The_Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01042029949389704751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-1158112621468025822006-09-12T19:48:00.000-06:002006-09-12T19:57:01.506-06:00Now Soliciting Comments...On Patriotism And The PledgeThought this group might have some fun weighing in on today's blogtopic: <a href="http://mediakit.blogspot.com/2006/09/one-nation-invisible.html">Teaching the pledge of allegiance to middle school students</a>.* <br /><br /><br><img src="http://www.usamemorial.org/images/allegiance.jpg"><br /><br /><small>*though I wouldn't touch the whole "under G-d" thing in a public school setting with a ten foot Huppah pole...</small>boyhowdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09799915352726835586noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-1156559624033977132006-08-25T20:28:00.000-06:002006-08-25T20:33:44.056-06:00Naked People In BrattleboroHey, did any of you catch <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2006/08/21/nude_people_in_town_center_could_prompt_ban/">this front page article in the Boston Globe</a>? <br /><blockquote><i>Groups of young people have been congregating in a downtown parking lot and enjoying the warm summer weather without clothing, and that bothers some local residents...</blockquote></i><br />The lot in question? Harmony. <br /><br />Darcie and I actually encountered the naked people in question last Friday when we went out for our anniversary. It made the experience of being in (usually casual) downtown Brattleboro in wedding dress and tie just that much more surreal.boyhowdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09799915352726835586noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-1154652256425863952006-08-03T18:43:00.000-06:002006-08-03T18:44:16.470-06:00WWGD?What Would Ginsberg Do?<br /><br />I think he would keep over in his grave from the shame that we didn't engage in some freeform spontaneous poetry or discuss.<br /><br />SHAME ON US!!!!<br /><br />=DThe_Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01042029949389704751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-1153379567156843202006-07-20T01:10:00.000-06:002006-07-20T01:12:47.176-06:00A Supermarket In California<center><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6087/186/1600/Ch26AllenGinsberg.jpg"></center><br /><br /> What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for<br />I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache<br />self-conscious looking at the full moon.<br /> In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went<br />into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!<br /> What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families<br />shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the<br />avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what<br />were you doing down by the watermelons?<br /><br /> I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,<br />poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery<br />boys.<br /> I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the<br />pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?<br /> I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans<br />following you, and followed in my imagination by the store<br />detective.<br /> We strode down the open corridors together in our<br />solitary fancy tasting artichokes, possessing every frozen<br />delicacy, and never passing the cashier.<br /><br /> Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in<br />an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight?<br /> (I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the<br />supermarket and feel absurd.)<br /> Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The<br />trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we'll both be<br />lonely.<br /><br /> Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love<br />past blue automobiles in driveways, home to our silent cottage?<br /> Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher,<br />what America did you have when Charon quit poling his ferry and<br />you got out on a smoking bank and stood watching the boat<br />disappear on the black waters of Lethe?<br /><br /><i>Berkeley, 1955</i>Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08102938744681257048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-1153269510926047192006-07-18T18:37:00.000-06:002006-07-18T18:38:30.970-06:00AmericaAmerica I've given you all and now I'm nothing.<br />America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956.<br />I can't stand my own mind.<br />America when will we end the human war?<br />Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb<br />I don't feel good don't bother me.<br />I won't write my poem till I'm in my right mind.<br />America when will you be angelic?<br />When will you take off your clothes?<br />When will you look at yourself through the grave?<br />When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites?<br />America why are your libraries full of tears?<br />America when will you send your eggs to India?<br />I'm sick of your insane demands.<br />When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?<br />America after all it is you and I who are perfect not the next world.<br />Your machinery is too much for me.<br />You made me want to be a saint.<br />There must be some other way to settle this argument.<br />Burroughs is in Tangiers I don't think he'll come back it's sinister.<br />Are you being sinister or is this some form of practical joke?<br />I'm trying to come to the point.<br />I refuse to give up my obsession.<br />America stop pushing I know what I'm doing.<br />America the plum blossoms are falling.<br />I haven't read the newspapers for months, everyday somebody goes on trial for<br />murder.<br />America I feel sentimental about the Wobblies.<br />America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.<br />I smoke marijuana every chance I get.<br />I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the roses in the closet.<br />When I go to Chinatown I get drunk and never get laid.<br />My mind is made up there's going to be trouble.<br />You should have seen me reading Marx.<br />My psychoanalyst thinks I'm perfectly right.<br />I won't say the Lord's Prayer.<br />I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations.<br />America I still haven't told you what you did to Uncle Max after he came over<br />from Russia.<br /><br />I'm addressing you.<br />Are you going to let our emotional life be run by Time Magazine?<br />I'm obsessed by Time Magazine.<br />I read it every week.<br />Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore.<br />I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library.<br />It's always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious. Movie<br />producers are serious. Everybody's serious but me.<br />It occurs to me that I am America.<br />I am talking to myself again.<br /><br />Asia is rising against me.<br />I haven't got a chinaman's chance.<br />I'd better consider my national resources.<br />My national resources consist of two joints of marijuana millions of genitals<br />an unpublishable private literature that goes 1400 miles and hour and<br />twentyfivethousand mental institutions.<br />I say nothing about my prisons nor the millions of underpriviliged who live in<br />my flowerpots under the light of five hundred suns.<br />I have abolished the whorehouses of France, Tangiers is the next to go.<br />My ambition is to be President despite the fact that I'm a Catholic.<br /><br />America how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?<br />I will continue like Henry Ford my strophes are as individual as his<br />automobiles more so they're all different sexes<br />America I will sell you strophes $2500 apiece $500 down on your old strophe<br />America free Tom Mooney<br />America save the Spanish Loyalists<br />America Sacco & Vanzetti must not die<br />America I am the Scottsboro boys.<br />America when I was seven momma took me to Communist Cell meetings they<br />sold us garbanzos a handful per ticket a ticket costs a nickel and the<br />speeches were free everybody was angelic and sentimental about the<br />workers it was all so sincere you have no idea what a good thing the party<br />was in 1935 Scott Nearing was a grand old man a real mensch Mother<br />Bloor made me cry I once saw Israel Amter plain. Everybody must have<br />been a spy.<br />America you don're really want to go to war.<br />America it's them bad Russians.<br />Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. And them Russians.<br />The Russia wants to eat us alive. The Russia's power mad. She wants to take<br />our cars from out our garages.<br />Her wants to grab Chicago. Her needs a Red Reader's Digest. her wants our<br />auto plants in Siberia. Him big bureaucracy running our fillingstations.<br />That no good. Ugh. Him makes Indians learn read. Him need big black niggers.<br />Hah. Her make us all work sixteen hours a day. Help.<br />America this is quite serious.<br />America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set.<br />America is this correct?<br />I'd better get right down to the job.<br />It's true I don't want to join the Army or turn lathes in precision parts<br />factories, I'm nearsighted and psychopathic anyway.<br />America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08102938744681257048noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-1152038206437225722006-07-04T12:36:00.000-06:002006-07-04T12:36:46.460-06:00What is your favorite sitting position...and why?Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08102938744681257048noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-1151983797885941002006-07-03T21:29:00.000-06:002006-07-03T21:29:57.930-06:00What is your favorite sexual position...and why?Shaw Israel Iziksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01951885209818980856noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-1151383418065285812006-06-26T22:42:00.000-06:002006-06-26T22:43:38.100-06:00Quiz NightDoes the word "spunk" make you feel dirty?boyhowdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09799915352726835586noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-1151210870856263672006-06-24T22:47:00.000-06:002006-06-24T22:47:50.856-06:00I had a dream a few days ago...Somethin' about world conquest and jelly beans.Shaw Israel Iziksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01951885209818980856noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-1151002052806284172006-06-22T12:46:00.000-06:002006-06-22T12:47:32.806-06:00Feel FreeFeel free to start an iniative to take on something that annoys you by creating your own entry or getting in touch with someone to give you admin priveleges.The_Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01042029949389704751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-1150514479627581692006-06-16T21:20:00.000-06:002006-06-16T21:21:19.646-06:00ComplainI want to hear your complaints. What annoys you about the world? What would you like changed?The_Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01042029949389704751noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-1150419782520298002006-06-15T18:59:00.000-06:002006-06-15T19:03:02.540-06:00Shaw in the HospitalHey folks,<br /><br />Shaw's in the hospital. He said that he should get discharged tomorrow, and that he should be all right. It was his heart again, but he had gotten under a lot of stress because of work and his car.<br /><br />It's kind of late on the East Coast now, so I don't think he can get calls. If you want to try calling him to give him your good intentions, leave a a non-anonymous comment here. I'll give you the hospital number.<br /><br />Otherwise, why not send him an e-mail of good wishes, get better, stop stressing out and to stand up for himself at work (if you want, say that I told you to say that. . .he'll understand).<br /><br />I'll respond to other conversation soemtime later tonight.The_Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01042029949389704751noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-1150327454705556252006-06-14T17:23:00.000-06:002006-06-14T17:24:14.726-06:00Hello? Hello? Anyone There?So. . .other than Amy and me, who else checks this blog regularly?The_Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01042029949389704751noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18341435.post-1150159630404408222006-06-12T18:45:00.000-06:002006-06-13T04:50:50.676-06:00Is There a Point to All?So is there a point to having this free form discussion <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog" target="why">blog</a> if we all have our <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog" target="why">blogs</a> and sometimes, like me, have three?<br /><br /><hr /><br /><br />yes but its a much smaller point. <br /><br />I have four or five blogs because you can make one on whim. All but one languish.<br />Having a blog is kind of like getting pregnant. In a moment of hope or passion you conceive a new address from which you will address the world with a new voice or chorus of voices. Then the daily grind of feeding the little beast dawns on you.<br /><br />Should we put it up for adoption?The_Lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01042029949389704751noreply@blogger.com3